Word Meanings - MAKE-BELIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

Related words: (words related to MAKE-BELIEVE)

• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FEIGNED
  Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• PRETENSED
  Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.
• BELIEVE
  To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• BELIEVER
  One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
• FORSWEAR
  1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden.
• FEIGNING
  That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• FEIGNER
  One who feigns or pretends.
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• DELUSION
  1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
• FEIGN
  figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as
• INVENTION
  The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross , a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding
• PRETENSEFUL
  Abounding in pretenses.
• CHILDLIKE
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker. Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity;
• PRETENSE; PRETENCE
  1. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• UNBELIEVER
  1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person;
• UNFEIGNED
  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. "Good faith unfeigned." Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.
• MISBELIEVE
  To believe erroneously, or in a false religion. "That misbelieving Moor." Shak.
• UNBELIEVED
  Not believed; disbelieved.
• MAKE-BELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.